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Webb is as close to a sure thing as there is.

 

In 4AAA Farragut and Bearden have the best shot at Region, Heritage could slip in the picture.

To advance to sub state they in have to beat 3AAA Morristown West, Seymour etc. The region final will be important because loser doesn't want to travel to Science Hill. Winner of Region should be favored to win substate and advance. Right now I think Farragut has best chance.

Farragut and Science Hill to Murfreesboro.

 

4AA is not as clear as AAA. CAK and Alcoa have best shot at region. Their 3AA counterparts are strong, Fulton and Gatlinburg both have good teams. Region host Fulton and CAK should advance(unless they meet in semi). As in AAA the loser will have a very tough opponent in Grainger Co. Winner will probably get Elizabethton (with tough guard out) should advance.

Grainger and Fulton to Murfreesboro.....but don't be surprised if CAK makes it through.

I agree with your Webb prediction. Still banking on Farragut and Fulton? Does Alcoa squeak through?

From this list I think Webb and CAK are the only teams that have a chance in going to state, not sure if Webb would make it to state if playing in Div. 1.

Not sure what criteria you are using to make your statement. Webb has a proven record against D1 opponents. Webb beat CAK Friday night, lost to McMinn Central by 3 in OT last week, beat Fulton in a Thanksgiving tournament, beat Maryville and Farragut in preseason tournaments, and knocked off some pretty formidable opponents in the Peach State Basketball Holiday Invitational after Christmas. Given that, if you think CAK has a chance, then Webb certainly would (if D1) however the point is moot.

There were 4 divisions

Riverdale won the RED division

Blackman won the GREEN division

Knoxville Webb won the WHITE division

Farragut won the SILVER division

With Bolingbrook IL also being in the RED division, my guess is that division was the toughest, followed by GREEN, WHITE then SILVER - but that's just a hunch as I'm not familiar with a lot of the out of state teams present.

Don't worry about the publics getting some of your potential transfers RunAndGun, the guy that owns the pharmacy in Powell will ensure Grace buys up all the good recruits. He is bound and determined to buy a championship for your school. Just saying...

Are we still talking girls' basketball?

...beating a dead horse I know..but I have never been to any football field other than webbs that do not have bleachers on both sides.

 

score predictions

USJ 31

webb 21

 

Harding 21

SG 7

 

Hope all the players enjoy their friday night football and that they represent their schools with pride and class. God bless the seniors that end their careers friday night.

You should get out more. Anderson County, Campbell Co, Knox Central, Fulton, Lenior City, Gibbs, Knox Catholic, Halls - oh, and WEBB - all 1 set of bleachers. It's going to be cold tonight - the cozier the better. Regardless - the game will be played on the field. Same size as every other field.

Webb's offense is quick, and Webb's defense has proven they can stop anything run (or thrown) at them. I'm feeling Webb 42 - USJ 13.

I think you have to throw in Aaron and Caleb Blance from Webb to be on par with Young and Purdy. Aaron has had 6 carries for 187 yards and 4 td's in only 2 games (plus a very nice 70 yard play in the jamborree against farragut (he is just a freshman). Caleb ran for 1250 yrds last year as a freshman (against teams like Ensworth, Catholic, Baylor, McCallie, A-E, Father Ryan, BGA, etc) and has 160 this year but has only played 4 qrts of play.

 

An interesting note but i do believe that Aaron, Caleb, Devrin young, and Tiano Perez of Farragut, were on a relay team together in middle school the won the 4X100 national championship, possibly breaking a record.

I'm pretty sure that Aaron wasn't on that relay team as he would have been a year younger than the others. I think Fulton's Bart Satterfield was the 4th member of the relay team you're talking about.

1. is definately Calob Lance from webb as far as the other 9 go im not exactly sure there wasnt too mant freshman stand out at the varsity level last season.

It's Caleb Blance

Halls has had a problem because the ladies playing for the past few years became accustomed to losing, and decided that it was a social thing, not a sports thing, to do. So when you get a coach like J D Lambert in there who wants to win, want to teach, and wants to coach to win, then all of a sudden, it isn't "fun" for some players, and that is what I understand is what got him fired.

 

As I understand it, he and his staff had a review meeting with the AD after the season, and were told that while the AD would have liked more success (read wins), he was happy with the direction the team was going. The fact that they were competitve in more games than in previous years ( I believe the Oak Ridge gane where Halls was still in it going to the 4th quarter was cited as an example) and that they were getting coached up was discussed in the meeting. Based on that, JD had already made plans for the summer, a workout schedule, a take home packet including a shooting schedule for each player, and a camp schedule.

 

Then he gets called in to talk with the principal, and is told the principal had had meetings (without JD) with players (and I assume parents, but that is my assumption), and was told the girls were not having fun, and the administration wanted to go in another direction.

 

The 6-2 post player you are discussing didn't fancy herself as a post player. She wanted to play on the perimeter, and was constantly being coached in practice and in games to play inside. She was a freshman, and needs to get used to the idea of playing against some physically larger players. She also tweeked a knee at Christmas time, and so some of the positioning (IE, not on free throw line) might have been a aid to keep her from further injury. It also could have been a strategy to set up the press, by having her back and ready, rather than forcing her to run full court on the knee.

 

You can't get a better person or coach than JD Lambert. He knows the game, and knows strategy. How anyone expects a coach to come in and try to turn around a program without straining some feelings is beyond me. You have fun when you win, you don't when you lose. The games I saw last year, the girls coming out of the losing dressing room didn't look like the losses bothered them. JD knew he was getting some talent from the middle school program, and was trying to get the winning attitude infused in the lower classmen. If you tell someone to do something, and they fail to do it, is that bad coaching, or bad playing? I think they could have won more games last year if some key players had taken the coaching to heart. But you know, listening to the coach isn't much fun, when he is telling you to work hard, and all you want to do is make sure you makeup is on correctly.

 

And JD has another fatal flaw. He doesn't do politics. He doesn't bow down to anyone. And he isn't from the Halls community. So good luck to whomever comes in. If you have been reading this thread, then you know they expect you to go 20-6, beat Powell, Oak Ridge, etc, and get to State. This year. Oh, and by the way, don't make them work to do it. The girls just want to have fun.

That just about sums it up - but add to that lack of coaching at the middle school level.

I had a friend a few years ago who had a daughter trying out for volleyball as a freshman and was begged by the basketball coach at the time to try out for basketball because they didn't have enough trying out to field a JV team. Other schools make cuts at tryouts, Halls has sign-ups.

Hallshasit ???